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1 hour ago, markm said:

Portal/Hagbulbia-Our old friend Ferday from Metal-Fi and The Vortex internet haunts told me this is his favorite album of 2021 by far, so giving it a listen....and it is a challenge to say the least....pretty much a noise album.

I emailed Fernando a couple of months ago, around the time when we first got the news that M-Fi was closing up shop. Nothing too heavy just a quick little back and forth, how ya been, whatcha been up to...you know. Mainly wanted to have his email in my gmail contacts since I knew when the board closed that old PM where he gave me his email addy would be lost forever. He answered the next day and we caught up a wee bit, made me feel better anyway. I find it ironic that my musical intolerance was apparently a large part of the reason he left the board, yet I miss him the most of anyone that left our little M-Fi group. Probably more than Carlissimo even, and I've even met him in person and have his number in my phone and we're friends on FB and stuff. Not surprising that Portal's Fernando's favorite this year, they are a non-musical band from down under after all. I'll betcha anything his 2nd favorite album this year is Ad Nauseam or something similar that I can't for the life of me decipher.

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7 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I emailed Fernando a couple of months ago, around the time when we first got the news that M-Fi was closing up shop. Nothing too heavy just a quick little back and forth, how ya been, whatcha been up to...you know. Mainly wanted to have his email in my gmail contacts since I knew when the board closed that old PM where he gave me his email addy would be lost forever. He answered the next day and we caught up a wee bit, made me feel better anyway. I find it ironic that my musical intolerance was apparently a large part of the reason he left the board, yet I miss him the most of anyone that left our little M-Fi group. Probably more than Carlissimo even, and I've even met him in person and have his number in my phone and we're friends on FB and stuff. Not surprising that Portal's Fernando's favorite this year, they are a non-musical band from down under after all. I'll betcha anything his 2nd favorite album this year is Ad Nauseam or something similar that I can't for the life of me decipher.

Thatguy likes noise and so of course I have listened to this.  I liked it...the old M-Fi'ers will know that I have seen Portal live and lived to tell the tale.

 

Just now listening to Daniel Herskedal - Harbour.  DH is a composer and tuba virtuoso.  Excellent tuba playing but a bit nice/jazz lite for my taste and I am about done with it now.

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8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I emailed Fernando a couple of months ago, around the time when we first got the news that M-Fi was closing up shop. Nothing too heavy just a quick little back and forth, how ya been, whatcha been up to...you know. Mainly wanted to have his email in my gmail contacts since I knew when the board closed that old PM where he gave me his email addy would be lost forever. He answered the next day and we caught up a wee bit, made me feel better anyway. I find it ironic that my musical intolerance was apparently a large part of the reason he left the board, yet I miss him the most of anyone that left our little M-Fi group. Probably more than Carlissimo even, and I've even met him in person and have his number in my phone and we're friends on FB and stuff. Not surprising that Portal's Fernando's favorite this year, they are a non-musical band from down under after all. I'll betcha anything his 2nd favorite album this year is Ad Nauseam or something similar that I can't for the life of me decipher.

Ferday is kind of an enigma to me...my oldest metalinterweb friend...he's turned me onto some amazing music...our tastes don't always match up-Portal I doubt will be a purchase and he's into dissonant metal and avant black more than I will ever be but we both loved stuff like Lord Mantis and blackish sludge. I think we both will listen to anything with an open mind damn the genre tags. 

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Ferday, Scourge, and believe it or not Goldie turned me on to a lot of good stuff that I probably wouldn't have found on my own. One thing I always appreciated about the good old days on M-Fi was the diversity of music represented. The heated opinions/discussions maybe not so much, but I did appreciate how passionate everyone was about the music they liked.  

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SOVIETWAVE, DOOMER, POST-SOVIET SYNTHWAVE Youtube Mix

Depeche Mode - Violator

 

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5 hours ago, navybsn said:

Ferday, Scourge, and believe it or not Goldie turned me on to a lot of good stuff that I probably wouldn't have found on my own. One thing I always appreciated about the good old days on M-Fi was the diversity of music represented. The heated opinions/discussions maybe not so much, but I did appreciate how passionate everyone was about the music they liked.  

Back on topic:

SOVIETWAVE, DOOMER, POST-SOVIET SYNTHWAVE Youtube Mix

Depeche Mode - Violator

 

....feeling the MODE love......nice one man.....

DEPECHE MODE

THE CRAMPS

 

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